Things that annoy you in campsites.

[TiggyOBE]

I think we can take dirty/broken amenities as granted, along with noise from inconsiderate campers.

I'll start with sites that have perfect lawn quality grass pitches to camp on, usually in neat rows. It just feels like you're in your back garden rather than properly outdoors.

Agree re people walking too close.

I was at a site once and the people next to us had no camping etiquette at all. They'd march between us and our tent when we were sat a few feet from the door.

They also got really rude when we lit our BBQ, fake coughing and complaining loudly that they/our kids would get lung cancer. We'd chosen the site as it allowed fires ffs!

Agree with loads of these! And to add one - no sink in the laundry room. Sometimes I just need to rinse out a pair of slightly damp pants (thanks, DD) and I don't really want to do that where people are washing their crockery...

Guitar players. They are usually pretty bad and I get so annoyed that they are arrogant enough to think we want to hear them drumming the same three chords over and over again.

The guitar players... we were exposed to one last weekend.

Other people's music of any description.

People sitting there staring at you pitch.

Barking dogs.

We're just home from a couple of nights camping. Our tent neighbours had no idea their tent wasn't soundproof and all were like Brian Blessed. Made early mornings fun!

Oh god - yes, people who trample right over your guy ropes. But equally, people who do the big group camping thing between the rest of the field and the loos. I'm not going to walk 5 miles around the outside of the field because you've built a tent city right in front of all the amenities.

Children being 'free-range' (bleugh) before 8am

TiggyOBE: I think this thread demonstrates that mostly the problem with campsites is campers!

Just got back from camping with.my lot and it was the first year they weren't up at the crazy of dawn. It was bliss!

But a group in the field were playing music from their car stereo until 4am!

Wonders if they shoukd have 3 areas.. early risers.. late night people... and normal people

fairy lights.
on 10ft poles.
blinking ones.

toilets without seats (france)

Snorers!
Barky dogs
Loud large rowdy campsites
And..
Sheep poo (possibly should've considered the possibility PRIOR to booking on to a Welsh farm..)

Oh god, yes! The guitar players who think they're a combination of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. Had three of them camped together and were 'treated' to a nightly 'concert'. But I 'liked' them better than the cornet player that joined in at 10 pm!

If I never hear Tambourine Man or Layla again, it will be too soon!

Yy, to the people who stare dumbfounded as you pitch up! Why?!?

Yes to the amateur musicians too...

Only one loo attatched to the owners house. Not fun, happily we were off season.

Wifi advertised sites when wifi only works in one tiny spot.

Kids with supersoakers who soak everyone and the parents say nothing.

Happily we often travel off season, so sites are mostly quiet.

Big yes to showers with no mops.

My OWN children!
Stony soil where you have to keep moving the pegs around to find a spot where your peg doesn't get bent.
People arriving at 10pm on the next pitch and starting a smoky barbecue. Go to the chipper if you arrive that late!

Campsites that charge a lot of money (in camping terms) and then ask you to take your rubbish home with you. Admittedly, it was on the website so buyer beware and all that. But is it too much to ask for a campsite to sort out some form of rubbish clearing?

And they had notices up asking people not to put it in neighbours' bins as presumably, it was starting to become an issue. If I were the neighbours I would be more hacked off at the campsite owners trying to save themselves some money and leaving my bins at the mercy of overpacked campers!

We almost had to make a decision between DD or the rubbish - in the end we managed to squeeze it all in, but still.

Also free range dogs that run around your pitch and in and out of your tents. Where are the owners?

People who hog the showers and get fully clothed inside the cubicle. They know there is a queue outside but insist on getting fully dry , rather than pop on a robe or at least come out of the cubicle to pop socks and shoes on or wear flip flops for goodness sake

After being away for a week, people walking through our pitch, past our tent and staring in! Feck off!

The parents who though it was a great idea to let their 6 & 4 year old children play alone, but made sure they had a phone which was basically a BRICK on a campsite with zero wifi or phone signal, who then got lost after the youngest got hurt and I spent a good while trying to help the kids find their tent before taking them to reception for them to help. Said parents were the worst walking through pitch campers btw

Over keen site managers who whenever they saw us sitting out the front of our tent decided they had to come and make conversation. Fine the first few times but started to get really awkward when all small talk topics had been exhausted.

At a beautiful campsite in the Peak District once the most enormous campervan piched up next to us. Their friends in an equally enormous campervan pitched next to them but doors opening to each other. They then stuck the most enormous flat screen tv under their canopy awning and all settled down to watch Saturday evening crap telly! Blaring out over the beautiful countryside.

Oh yes, I feel your pain on that one Busy, I remember pitching up at a campsite with an amazing view of the sun setting over a lake, settling down for the evening glass of wine in hand, only for the people next to us to stick Eastenders on loudly in their awning.

Groups of friends who rock up pitch up tents a cooking awning a milliion chairs a few windbreakers like its a village does my nut in. People who spread out their toiletries over 3 sinks when all you want to do is wash your hands.

Firepits i hate firepits smelly sparky things

Yy to people who walk across your pitch. Music of any sort makes me tbh, why do you think you get decide what music I have to listen to? Barking dogs.

Having just come home from a (lovely) camping break in France... Campsite salle d'animes that function as the only bar in the village and allow dance music until the early hours.

Too many caravans, especially when TV is on too loudly.

I'd camp in your back garden if I were you !

Noisy groups of weekend campers that fill in the gaps that we've enjoyed / played in all week. Probably with at least one guitarist amongst them.